General Chat

Afternoon all,

Had a reasonable night, and after getting out to the loo at 7.00 am went back and dropped off till 9.20, Ros woke at the same time. If we can;t turn over for an extra hour or so, at our age when can you, :-D :-D :-D

Very wet and windy here first thing, now it's just the wind blowing everything around the patio, Ros went down to the greenhouse an hour ago, and hasn't reappeared yet. What she is up to I just don't know.

I personally think that these GROUPS who gather and don't give a TOSS for the rules, should all be heavelly FIND. Perhaps that will teach them to obey the LAW. It's those kind, that make it bad/danderous for the rest of us. :-( :-( :-(

After getting showered and shaved this morning, I got dressed and sat and read part of the Paper, not that theres much worth reading I then sat in the conservatory reading my book.

Ros has just come in. She has been pulling all the Runner beans up, and put in the Green Bin. ready for collection.

I have been lucky with the attacks this morning, as soon as I feel one coming on, I have a GULP of COLD WATER. Two bottles down so far.

Nice to see Vera is O.k. snd I trust all of my other dear friends are too.

I must ring Harvey to see if he has done anything about a NEW SHOWER and TRAY. The ones I picked out on EBAY, he said were "ALL RUBBISH". I hope he's not thinking of spending HUNDREDS of Pounds. like he does for his "RICH CLIENTS". If push comes to shove I will buy what I think is suitable, and get Ringo or Jonathan to fit it for me.

Another hour and we will be off for our Lunch. I must admit I have no appetite, so Hope i can at least eat a little. See you later. xxxx

Afternoon all

Rain, rain and more rain here, I've done loads of washing so now I'm trying to get it all dry on the rads, I really need to get my dryer fixed but with the lockdown I don't know who's working and who isn't.

I tried to watch Boris last night but got so confused I gave up, does anyone know what the new lockdown rules are for England now?

I've got a bit of a sore throat and feel generally unwell, I can't seem to stop sneezing so it looks like I'm getting a cold. I'm drinking plenty but don't seem to have much of an appetite, I force myself to eat something but it's not much. At least I'm trying..........very trying as my OH would say LOL ;-)

I notice you mentioning the blue moon Mel, I had a look but it looked white to me, it was very cloudy so I didn't see much of it, just glimpses through the clouds. Thanks for letting us know about Flappergirl's message I hope her daughter can get some answers when she goes to her appointment this month. Sorry to hear about her aunt passing away of Covid, the same thing happened to our elderly neighbour, the one who was 100 last year, it's so sad isn't it?

Sorry I haven't caught up with any of the other posts, I'm just so tired and think I might try and have a sleep this afternoon as I haven't been sleeping very well lately. Sandra is catching up with some programmes she watches that we don't record. She watches so many things they clash with the things we watch so she watches her programmes in her room.

I hope everyone is okay

Here you are Gill



Restrictions will start at midnight on Thursday morning and last until December 2.

People can only leave their homes for specific reasons, such as to do essential shopping, for outdoor exercise, and for work if they are unable to work from home.

Non-essential shops will be told to shut, although supermarkets do not need to close off aisles as has happened in Wales.

Restaurants and bars will be told to close unless they can operate a takeaway service.

Travel abroad is only permitted for 'essential' reasons such as work, people can still return to the UK from abroad.

Leisure centres, gyms, sporting venues, hairdressers and beauty parlours will have to close, although professional sport will continue.

Key businesses that cannot operate remotely - such as construction - should carry on as before with safety precautions.

Places of worship can stay open for private prayer. Funerals are limited to close family only.

The furlough scheme will be extended during the period of the lockdown, rather than ending tomorrow as originally planned.

Exercise is permitted with no limits on frequency, but organised sports - including outdoor activities such as golf - will not be permitted.

When the lockdown lapses the Tiers system will be reinstated, leaving questions about what metric will be used to decide whether areas can have restrictions eased.

Well, here I am, turning up again like the proverbial bad penny.

It has not been a good week. I’ve had a lot of severe back pain and I don’t think it can be due to my shoe from the fracture clinic. I spent 2 nights sitting up on the bed as I couldn’t lay down so hardly slept. Since then I have managed to lay down and sleep a bit, though I had a bad night again last night. The trouble is the dratted pain keeps moving. It started on the right hand side of the spine, then moved to the left, then I had two days when it felt as though every movement was cutting me in half round my waist, now it is back where it started on the right. I’ve used heat pads and wheat bags but they don’t seem to have helped much and I am trying to keep painkillers to a minimum. I suppose it will get better eventually and I don’t know why I am complaining after a week or so. AnnG’s poor OH has had problems for a long time.

More worrying for both myself and my OH is the fact that I have been so depressed. I have had several tearful spells which doesn’t help and it isn’t like me at all. I have the odd down day but usually take myself out and walk it off but I can’t do that at the moment. I think I am definitely missing the fresh air and exercise. I haven’t been able to spend time in the garden or go out for a walk for six weeks and I am going a bit stir crazy. Thankfully my foot is a lot better so I am hoping to manage at least a short walk soon.

My mood this week hasn’t been helped by realizing we were heady for lockdown again so it’s going to be even longer before we see the family, particularly the ones in Yorkshire, and daughter’s puppy will be a grown dog before we get to meet her. Enough of my miseries; you all have your own problems and don’t want to hear this moaning Minnie going on about hers.

Frank, I do hope the hospital can give you some help this week. You have been through the mill a bit recently. Keep doing the breathing exercises, they are sure to help. Someone (was it Mandy?) mentioned “tapping”. It was a very popular technique a few years back and was then called EFT which stood for Emotional Freedom Technique. An acupuncturist I was visiting to help my migraines introduced me to it as he felt it might help. I practised it regularly for a year or so. It didn’t help me but I can see that it could help in something like an anxiety attack. It might be worth you googling for information or even asking your nice lady doctor about it. I’ll warn you though that you do feel pretty silly tapping with your fingertips on various points of your body, but if it helps who cares how silly you feel.

Good to see you posting Gill. I hope you are not getting a cold. Stay warm, drink plenty and don’t work too hard.

Mel, if you are emailing fg at all would you be kind enough to send her my condolences on the loss of her aunt and my best wishes for her daughter. I hope things improve for them all soon. Btw I forgot to mention earlier that I took up your suggestion of making guava gin with some of my guava crop. We’re not gin drinkers but I had a bottle in the cupboard and daughter and granddaughter like trying the different gins so I am doing it for them. I am attempting to make guava jelly with the rest. If it’s not successful it will become a sauce to pour over vanilla ice cream.

Mandy, I am looking forward to seeing the gingerbread house. It sounds great. Your son’s new car sounds ideal for the family. Will he manage to pick it up before Thursday’s lockdown?

AnnG, you have been busy with all your cards and I am sure the lady who sells them for charity is grateful for your contribution. I think Tesco must run different systems in different parts of the country. Presumably you can see the dates up to 28th Nov. if you know there are none available till then. We can only see 3 weeks so today we can only see up to 21st, then tomorrow it will be up to 22nd etc. and you are quite right, suddenly all the slots that were available a day or so ago are filled both on home delivery and click and collect. I have a fortnightly delivery so I have one tomorrow and one on 16th but who knows what will happen after that.

You might remember that our neighbour was in hospital recently. OH drove his wife in 3 times, another friend took her a couple of times and she also got a taxi three times (at £60 a time!), then on Thursday afternoon he was allowed home. Midnight Thursday I saw blue lights and heard a lot of noise outside, peeped through the blinds and saw it was an ambulance outside their house again. I assumed that it was the husband having to go back but no….this time it was the wife, so she is now in hospital. They really are not having much luck at all.

Well, as you can see my broken foot and painful back haven’t stopped my verbal diarrhoea (sp?). I must go and finish making my guava jelly before this painkiller wears off and I can’t stand up by the cooker any more. I hope you all sleep well tonight.

O so lovely to kw that Vera is ok even if she has had a bad week. I do hope the back eases soon for you Vera. If your jelly sod'nt set you could try putting some lemon juice in it. You have to do that with strawberry jam and a few other too. I like ready your verbal diarrhoea as you put it cos you always have a nice lot to tell us.

Good too that Gill has popped in and I hope the cold goes quickly.

Em rang me a little while ago to say she had the things I asked her to get from Tesco. 2 jars of redcurrant jelly and my furters so I am £5 lighter for three things. What is the world coming to? She also told me that something has had their rabbit. The cage top that opens so you can feed it was pushed in and the rabbit gone. They had had him a long while too. So now they have no pets at all. Poor od Fred went a litlle while ago and now Treasure.

Anng your friend will be pleased to get the cards you made so she can sell them for charity. You are a good girl to make them for her.

I was making scotch pancakes when Em arrived and I have made a whole lot so I think they may be for tea tonight as I have some nice clotted cream and strawberry or cherry jam to go with them.

Must go and take the corn out of the bantams before the mice eat it all.

Sorry your feeling so down again Vera ,I wonder what started your back pain ,I hope it soon eases up and you can get out for a little walk again .
I think son is hoping he can have the car on Wednesday ,I'm not sure if the garages will be locked down so hopefully he can collect it ,luckily it's a garage in the town so no travelling to far.
Hope the gin comes out OK ,will the berries give it a nice pink color as I think I read they have a taste like strawberries.

Ann another lovely painting ,yours trees always look so good and I can see how the path/road goes away into the distance with the fencing doing the same .

Gill good to see you posting hope the sore throat soon gets better ,I wonder where you pick these colds up from as you don't go out .

Frank hope you managed to eat a little food ,could you ask for a child's portion so you don't have lots on the plate as that can put you off .

Mel are the scotch pancakes like the little American pancake mix ,I some times make the American ones and add a few sultanas and then eat them cold like little cakes.
Poor old rabbit was it a fox thst had him do you think .

Well the sun came out this afternoon and it looked lovely out ,my goodness the wind has taken loads of leaves off the trees though.

Dear All

Hello to you all, you lovely lot!

Well, its almost the start of another week.

Try not to buy too many toilet rolls.

Keep calm and hopefully when the weather is better mid-week, enjoy the sunshine.

Take gentle care
Love Elizabeth, EOS
xx

Well I never got any sleep this afternoon as I planned, my throat is worse so I'm dosing up and hoping I feel better soon. At least the washing is finally finished, it's taken me all day to do there was that much.

Thanks AnnG for letting me know about lockdown, you explained it really well, maybe you should take over Boris's job lol :-D

I'm trying to watch the F1 but have lost track of what's going on as I can't concentrate properly on it. Never mind OH will be watching it when he gets in from work so I'll watch it again with him. I'll keep watching it now at least I'll see the end and can watch the beginning again later for the bits I missed.

Gill :-D I can’t take credit for that I copied it from an on line newspaper.

Oh dear Vera your back problem seems to mirror my OH’s I really hope you get rid of yours.. I can’t hardly bear to watch him when it hurts it is so painful so I do sympathise. Do you think your depression could be linked to your back pain or is it separate. I do feel this disease and all that goes with it is causing anxiety in various forms with everyone. Personally I have times of feeling down and resentful of time wasted not being able to do what I would like to be doing. This is feelings about the virus not our problems with OH, although I admit they don’t help. And also the realisation that logically a year out of my life at this stage is a big thing. Who knows how many years are left?

Frank I hope you managed some of the meal today.

Mel oh poor rabbit how sad, was the hutch not secured properly? Scotch pancakes what are they like.

Gill I hope you feel better soon have either your oH or Sandra got a cold,?

Annx as I said in my email, the perspectives in your picture are very good and .i love the simplicity of the picture.

Mandy hope the car is ready. Shame it won’t be able to go far for a while though.

Evening All,

I wrote a long post, forgot to post and then lost it......so boo hoo!

Sorry you are so down Vera and I hope your back soon feels a little better. Are you still laving Zoom meetings with the family? If not it may be worth starting them up as that way at least you can see them and the fast growing dog!

Gill sorry you have come down with another throat and I hope it soon goes. What are you doing getting all that washing done when you have a trainee parlour maid who needs practice! lol. :-D

What a shame about Treasure Mel. Do you think someone stole it? I expect the boys were sad.

I have had an email from Fitz. He is dreadfully sad about what has happened to Jane too and said what a good friend she had been to him, especially in latter years. He will be going to the funeral. He suggested that we meet up for a meal at some point in the future, even if to just celebrate still being alive!!

Mandy, I also had to draw lines from a point to get the house walls and roof angles right too so there was a lot of rubbing out of lines before painting. There is a bit of uncertainty about whether the course will be on tomorrow. We all got emails and partial refunds for the course yesterday with no explanation! :-0 The teacher is hoping to sort it out in time or we may not be able to log on.

Hope you managed a small helping Frank. Big meals are not advisable as they can trigger attacks, so smaller meals are better but have more of them. Yes, Vera and Mandy are right about the tapping technique as I was taught it on an anxiety management course I was sent on. It's something else to try for you.

Ann you have been busy doing all of those cards and delivering them to the lady. Roughly how many more will you need to be making before Christmas. I must start thinking about Christmas Cards. I am doing another course soon where we are making some so that should be interesting.

Annx I usually send about 80 cards and I think I have made pretty well all of them now so I just make a few when I want to to with no rush.

I enjoy making the ones for charity it gives me more scope for making cards.

I thought the painting was really good Ann and another winner but hsould'nt the road have gone much smaller towards the sky?? The little cottage is great and just right and I think the skys good too and the trees. Your a clever girl as Iv'e said before. It was nice to hear from Fitzy and I bet he is really cut up about our lovely Jane's death a sthey had been friends for such a long time.

Gill not another cold where so you keep getting these things from? Hope you feel better soon.

I must remember to get some stamps when I get up the post van if its still coming.

good morning, woke early and couldn't sleep worrying about OH. Yesterday evening he just couldn't watch TV at all it is too bright for his eys which seem to have become very light sensitive.Wonder what today will bring.

I forgot yesterday Mel to say thanks for the message from FG, I hope that her daughter can soon actually get to have her appointment and the lock down doesn't affect her.

And also forgot to say Poor Fitz, he must miss Jane terrible, she was a great support to him.

Good morning all,


I thought I had better pop in, so you don' worry over me.

I did manage a starter for lunch yesterday. Smakrf Salmon and prawns in a very nice creamy sauce, I asked for extra, as I wasn't having a man course. hey put extra on the plate and xgarged my £2.50. Eos had an enormous plate of Roast Beef, with all the trimmings. I was surprised to see how many people were there, I suppose with LOCK DOWN coming Thursdsy, they thought they would get out while they can.

I have helped Ros change the bed, and turn the mattress this morning. It needs to be done every few months.

Ros is going to do a shop this morning, as Carolyn needs a few things NOW. SO she won't need to go n Tuesday.

She has the engine light coming up on the dash again, so will call at a different garage to get an opinion, of what it might be, (MOORE EXPENSE)

I'm not feeling 1OO% this morning, so I will sit in the conservatorty in the quiet, and read my book. I will try not to think of my anxiety/panix attacks, but will had bottles os water on standby, if I need it.

Have a good day all, sending you my love. xxxx

Good morning all,


I thought I had better pop in, so you don' worry over me.

I did manage a starter for lunch yesterday. Smakrf Salmon and prawns in a very nice creamy sauce, I asked for extra, as I wasn't having a man course. hey put extra on the plate and xgarged my £2.50. Eos had an enormous plate of Roast Beef, with all the trimmings. I was surprised to see how many people were there, I suppose with LOCK DOWN coming Thursdsy, they thought they would get out while they can.

I have helped Ros change the bed, and turn the mattress this morning. It needs to be done every few months.

Ros is going to do a shop this morning, as Carolyn needs a few things NOW. SO she won't need to go n Tuesday.

She has the engine light coming up on the dash again, so will call at a different garage to get an opinion, of what it might be, (MOORE EXPENSE)

I'm not feeling 1OO% this morning, so I will sit in the conservatorty in the quiet, and read my book. I will try not to think of my anxiety/panix attacks, but will had bottles os water on standby, if I need it.

Have a good day all, sending you my love. xxxx

Morning Anng and all,

We have sunshine and blue sky and big white clouds but still a wind which is blowing the clouds along quickly in the sky.

Have to go and get our scripts today as oh is right out now. Also want the post office if it comes today.

We will miss the pics of Fitz's Christmas tree this year won't we. I always liked to see the tree and the little one by the fireplace.

Must get on.

Morning all,

Very windy here today ,I woke about five for the loo and my goodness it was blowing well then, I've hung some washing out so must keep an eye on it as I could feel a few spits of rain but I thought I would chance it as with the lovely blow they shouldn't take long to dry .

Yes I think poor Fitz will miss Jane as we all will ,they use to keep each other company at the cinema and yes we will miss seeing his lovely tree too.

Just having a cuppa I'm trying to have a bit less coffee ,I got on the scales which I haven't done for a while and I'd lost five pounds so I was really pleased ,we have tried cutting down a bit ,Colin hopped on and he'd lost ten pounds so we're doing well but with Christmas coming it might be it all goes down hill then :-D

Frank that was good you managed to eat a little some thing ,keep doing the breathing excersise you'll get there .

That is good! I now have 4 Tesco slots booked, the last one the 29th so hopefully (if there is not an extension) that will take me through the lockdown. I just wish people in the stores would stop panic buying and just shop normally. Or I wish the stores would limit some of the goods that people panic buy.

I spent about 45 minutes out in the garden filling up the brown bin that will be collected tomorrow so that was a good job done.

Morning all

Beautiful weather here but rain forecast around midday.

It was blowy last night and the bedroom curtains were flapping. We like the window open but didn't want the dog to think we had an intruder lol. As I went over to close the window I heard an owl oo-ooing in the wood across the road. I would have enjoyed going to sleep listening to that!

Specs not a great success :-\ Distance are great - if I close my right eye. They have reaction lenses which will be a benefit. But.... not so good with the readers. On the plus side, I was able to do a simple line drawing without seeing two lines and I was able to thread my sewing machine needle, The down side - I still get double vision on the laptop and reading a book is impossible.
I try not to dwell on this as I feel so let down by the clinic (ops were two years ago!!!!) I think they dump patients, put the ansa phone on and don't bother with the messages.
I'll phone speccies this afternoon to report on my new specs - what a very pleasant service and very good optician.
That's my 'moan du jour' LOL

Annx, love the painting, will you let us know what the teacher says? You'll probably get a gold star :-D

Now I've got page one, 2010, in view so can't scroll up to see what others have posted.

Morning All,

Nice sunshine here for a change, it makes me feel like doing more and getting on.

Yes that was my own thought about the lane in my picture Mel.........the last bit didn't narrow quite enough. Well done for spotting it! It's much easier to do with a straight road like the practice picture we did in the class and I think adding the fence has made it more noticeable as that looks right. I might have another 'fiddle' with it! :-D We are hoping we will be able to sign in for today's class. The teacher has let us know that it was to do with her turning age 55 and taking her teacher's pension? Lucky aren't they being able to do that, we had to wait till we were age 60 in the Civil Service.

Glad you enjoyed your meal with extras Frank. Shame about the car light, but best to get it sorted. Enjoy the peace and have a relaxing day,

Mandy there was a punch embroidery article in WW last August and I think it is something the girls would enjoy too. It's quicker and less accurate than usual embroidery and they could do their own picture or a cushion. I imagine you could use up leftover chunky wool or maybe double some thinner wool if that would work.

I need to go and measure up our upright garage freezer next. I wanted a new smaller additional one really, but they are all manual defrost and I want another frost free one as they are less work. The one in the garage is 20 years old now so another the same size would replace it if it packs up and as OH says, we could always switch the new one off for a while if not needed if we ever eat out a lot again!! It means I could store more and cook and freeze more extra meals to save time. The problem is the garage is full so a bit of a sort and chuck away is needed! Why does one job always lead to another? :-(

Ann you are very good at your cardmaking to manage to make all of those! I know what you mean about 'losing' a year with our ages increasing, but I am hoping by catching up with more home jobs it will mean we will be free to do much more once we can.